[MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE – SOVIET URBAN PLANNING] Oktiabr'skaia (3-ia) vystavka planirovki i arkhitektury na ul. Gor'kogo [3rd October exhibition of architecture and urban planning on Gorky Street]. WITH: Oktiabr'skaia (5-ia) vystavka rekonstruktsii Moskvy v vitrinakh po ulitse Gor’kogo [5th October exhibition of the reconstruction of Moscow in vitrines along the Gorky street].
Moscow: Izdanie Mossoveta, 1934. Octavo (21 × 15.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Illustrations including maps, plans, and elevations. Small chips to front wrapper perimeter, toned throughout due to stock. A few markings in red pencil to text, else very good. AND: Moscow: Izdanie zhurnala stroitel’stvo Moskvy, 1935. Octavo (21 × 15.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 47, [1] pp. Illustrations including maps, plans, and elevations. Partially unopened and uncut. Toned due to stock, with a few markings in pencil to text. About very good. Item #55771
Two catalogs for the large architectural exhibition installed in vitrines along Gorky Street, Moscow’s main artery, which presented the preliminary master plans for “New Moscow” in 1934 and 1935. The catalogs are illustrated with maps, plans, elevations, and architectural drawings, and provide information about displays in 85 and 101 vitrines respectively. The works on display were designed by the ten Architectural and Design Workshops of Mossovet, formed in 1933 as part of the plan for the reconstruction of the city, headed by the most prominent architects of the day such as Nikolai Kolli, Konstantin Mel’nikov, and Aleksei Shchusev. According to the brief introduction to the first volume, the new Moscow plans include "the designs for its main thoroughfares—both radial and ring roads—the design of the Palace of Soviets, the construction of the avenue leading to the Palace of Soviets, the creation of large squares in the capital, the design of the Red Army Theater, designs for a whole series of residential buildings for workers and laborers along the Moscow River embankments, designs for housing for engineers and technical personnel, theaters, schools, clubs, industrial giants, and new socialist cities." The vitrines featured projects such as "Okhotnyi riad" metro station, the Mossovet hotel, and the House of Architects on the Smolensk embankment of the Moscow river, all designed by Aleksei Shchusev, one of the masters of Soviet architecture who would become responsible for the implementation of the new Moscow city plan. Shchusev is best remembered today for the modernist structure of Lenin’s Mausoleum on Red Square.
As of June 2026, KVK, OCLC show holdings of the catalog for the third exhibition catalog at one institution in North America; the catalog for the fifth exhibition is held by three institutions.
Price: €1,500.00